No help, Modi bhakt dies PIYUSH SRIVASTAVA Lucknow: An Agra resident whe had “devoted his life” to Narendra Modi and had pro- claimed that the Prime Minis- ter Followed him on Twitter, has passed away from Covid complications after hissister’s direct appeal to the leader on social media for medical help allegedly went unheeded, Amit Jaiswal Jain,42, who according to some media re- ports threatened to beat up anybody even remotely criti- cal of Modl, died ina Mathura hospital on April 29, 10 days after testing positive for Covid and four days after his sister Sonu Alagh had appealed to the Prime Minister and Uttar Pradesh chief ininister Yogi Adityanathon Twitterfor help to procure remdesivir and en- sure proper treatment. Thesister had tweeted fom Jaiswal’s Twitter handle on April 25: “Mysd£Sonu Alagh, Mr Anilt Jaiswal’s sister. This is tolniform that we are facing issues regarding arrangement ‘of Randesivir (sic) and treat- ment, He is admitted in NAY- ATI hospital, Mathura, We need your help. Heisnot well.” Sonu had tagged @PMOIndia, G@narendramodi and @myo- eladityanath, Lateon Wednesday, Jaisw- al’s Twitter acount could no Jonger be found on the mi- croblogging ite. Somt disconnected the phone when this newspaper called her up on Wednesday evening, only saying: “Tdon't now anything” source close tothe family sald Sonu and her husband Rajendra had torn a poster of Modi that adorned Jaiswal’s car and also taken down a hoarding bearing a picture of the leader in front ofhis house. Rajendra told The Print web portal: “Amit ne poort zindagi PM Modi ke live nikal di, Modi ne uske tive Aya kiya? Aise PM saliab ki hiurmein kya zarcorat? —Humme poster phaadie ke nikacd diya (Amit spenthisentirelifefighting for PM Modli, What did Modi do for him? We tore off his poster).” ‘The source close to the family said Jaiswal, who used to trade in hoardings and ban- ners, and his mother Raj Kamal needed hospitalisation but could not find a bed mn Agra “They could be admitted only after four days in a Mathura hospital. He died on. April 29 and his mother on May 9. He had devoted hislife to Modi but the Prime Minis ter ditehed him. The first thing his sister did after re- turning to Agra on Monday was that she tere Modi’s poster from her brother’s car and brought down a small hoarding with the Prime Min- ister’spicturein front of their house,” the souree said. nit used to attend shakhas of the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh every day. Some RSS workers had visited the family in Agra on Tuesday to express their co dolence and cursed Modi for belng so selfish,” the source claimed. The New York Timeshadin a report on February 4, 2020, said that Jaiswal wanted the Aditvanath government to add a chapter in schoolbook: on Nathuram Godse, the as- sassinof Mahatma Gandhi. “Ant Jaiswal Jain, an ad- vertising professional in the town of Agra, believes Godse is a hero because he tried to stop Gandh’s push for India to help the newly formed Pak: istan,” the newspaper had re- port, Ithad quoted Jai swal as saying: “Gandhi shouldbe re- spected but the new India shouldnot tolerate thecastiga. tion of Godse.”